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From: folta@tove.umd.edu (Wayne Folta)
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Subject: Re: IIci and Video (was Re: IIci + 8Mb != more speed)
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Date: 15 Feb 90 18:17:57 GMT
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>... If so, that would appear
>to be a simpler solution to speeding up the IIci than to
>have to juggle programs and their memory allocations to get
>them to run in a particular bank

Having to juggle around programs is a pain.  But the advantage over a
seperate video card is three-fold: 1) it saves you several hundred dollars
(you paid for the built-in video...); 2) the internal video is
measurably faster than a video card, since it avoids going through the
NuBus; and 3) it leaves three slots free.
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Wayne Folta          (folta@cs.umd.edu  128.8.128.8)